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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting perl equivalent to grep -c Post 302186169 by popeye on Wednesday 16th of April 2008 02:25:03 PM
Old 04-16-2008
perl equivalent to grep -c

Guess the subject lines says it all.

What is the perl equivalent to grep -c

-c, --count
Suppress normal output; instead print a count of match-
ing lines for each input file. With the -v, --invert-
match option (see below), count non-matching lines.

So if the file name is somefile, my search pattern is houseboat and there are 3 occurences/instances of houseboat in the file, I want to

$var=houseboat
$x=`grep -c $var somefile`
print '$var $x\n"

output

houseboat 3

Thanks
 

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GREP(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   GREP(1)

NAME
grep - search a file for lines containing a given pattern SYNOPSIS
grep [-elnsv] pattern [file] ... OPTIONS
-e -e pattern is the same as pattern -c Print a count of lines matched -i Ignore case -l Print file names, no lines -n Print line numbers -s Status only, no printed output -v Select lines that do not match EXAMPLES
grep mouse file # Find lines in file containing mouse grep [0-9] file # Print lines containing a digit DESCRIPTION
Grep searches one or more files (by default, stdin) and selects out all the lines that match the pattern. All the regular expressions accepted by ed and mined are allowed. In addition, + can be used instead of * to mean 1 or more occurrences, ? can be used to mean 0 or 1 occurrences, and | can be used between two regular expressions to mean either one of them. Parentheses can be used for grouping. If a match is found, exit status 0 is returned. If no match is found, exit status 1 is returned. If an error is detected, exit status 2 is returned. SEE ALSO
cgrep(1), fgrep(1), sed(1), awk(9). GREP(1)
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